adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a suasive manner; so as to persuade.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. III. ii. Let a true tale, of his Majesty’s … wretched pecuniary impossibilities, be suasively told them.

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1871.  T. Hardy, Desperate Remedies, II. 134. ‘You must remember,’ she added, more suasively, ‘that Miss Graye has a perfect right to do what she likes with her own—her heart, that is to say.’

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  So Suasiveness.

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II.

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1885.  Homilet. Rev., June, 481. The leading examples of the early style [of preaching] … characterized by much unction and suasiveness.

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